November 18, 1987 (vol. 98, iss. 50) • Page Image 63
…BOOKS - _ So Chic, So Glossy Art history on the run know I've succeeded when my work is talked about as though it were a movie that had just been seen," says the artist Eric Fischl. His strange, voyeuristic paint- ings of suburban family life provoke a lot of conversation-as do surprising works by several other celebrated contemporary art- ists. But how can you keep up with what's hot and what's not now that art talk is as fashionable as cine...…

















































